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2019-03-22 01:35:00 UTC
HackRead
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Facebook stored 600m user passwords in plain text exposed to 20k employees

By Uzair Amir

The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing investigation so far has revealed no sign that employees abused or accessed […]

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Privacy Security Social Network News Facebook LEAKS Passwords Security Social Media
2019-03-21 20:47:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
WordPress Plugin Removed After Zero Day Discovered

The plugin, Social Warfare, is no longer listed after a cross site scripting flaw was found being exploited in the wild.

Vulnerabilities Web Security Patch Social Warfare Vulnerability Wordpress Wordpress Flaw Wordpress Plugin
2019-03-21 20:47:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
WordPress Plugin Patched After Zero Day Discovered

The plugin, Social Warfare, is no longer listed after a cross site scripting flaw was found being exploited in the wild.

Vulnerabilities Web Security Patch Social Warfare Vulnerability Wordpress Wordpress Flaw Wordpress Plugin
2019-03-21 18:39:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Change your Facebook password now!

Facebook has done an audit and shocked even itself by finding plaintext passwords in logfiles back to 2012. Change your password now!

Data Loss Facebook Breach Password
2019-03-21 18:30:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
Hacker AI vs. Enterprise AI: A New Threat

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being weaponized using the same logic and functionality that legitimate organizations use.

2019-03-21 17:51:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Hackers Take Down Safari, VMware and Oracle at Pwn2Own

On the first day of Pwn2Own 2019 hackers poked holes in Apple Safari, VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox.

Hacks Vulnerabilities Web Security Apple Safari Heap Out-of-bounds JIT Bug Oracle VirtualBox Pwn2own 2019 VMware Workstation
2019-03-21 17:14:00 UTC
HackRead
HackRead
Panic after hackers take control of emergency tornado alarms in Texas

By Waqas

On March 12th, at around 2:30 a.m., residents of two Texas towns panicked after hearing tornado alarm that went off until 4:00 a.m. They were disturbed because the alarms repeatedly went on and off for about one and a half hours, thanks to hackers – Finally, related authorities were able to turn them off. See: […]

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Hacking News Hacking Security Texas Vulnerability
2019-03-21 17:10:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
Police Federation of England and Wales Suffers Apparent Ransomware Attack

National Cyber Security Centre and National Crime Agency investigate random attack that locked down the association's data and deleted backups.

2019-03-21 16:16:00 UTC
HackRead
HackRead
Flaw in NSA’s GHIDRA leads to remote code execution attacks

By Waqas

GHIDRA is NSA’s reverse engineering tool released earlier this month. Earlier this month, Hackread.com posted about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) publicly releasing its decompiler and disassembler tool GHIDRA and make it open-source software. Now, it has been revealed that the generic reverse engineering tool has a flaw that can be exploited by cybercriminals for carrying […]

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News GHIDRA NSA Security Social Engineering Vulnerability
2019-03-21 16:15:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
New Jersey to expand data breach notification law

Amendments to state’s definition of ‘personal data’ expected to pass

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